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Missed Signals Of the 16 selected for the operation, says Qasab, three ran away. The rest returned to Muridke, where for one month they were given swimming lessons and "acquainted with the environment experienced by a fisherman on a sea." (The fishpond on the Muridke campus, the size and shape of two Olympic-size pools placed at a right angle to each other, doubles as a swimming pool, a student told TIME.) While he was in Muridke, Qasab and his teammates attended lectures on the Indian intelligence agencies and watched videos highlighting atrocities committed against Muslims in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Mumbai Terrorist | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

Nguyen Huu Viet must have thought the worst was over when he buried his two-year-old son on Dec. 25. The boy had drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Measures | 1/31/2005 | See Source »

Calvin's underground house is a wonder itself, with a huge fishpond, fake outdoors patio and early 60s kitsch. Plus, it boasts a stockroom so big that the mother can still push around a shopping cart. Buildings seem to be catchy way to describe the changing times. Spacek bakes pot roasts in a peaceful, tidy home. Above, Mom's Malt Shop sprouts up in place of the Webbers' old house and gradually devolves into a filthy hangout for druggies...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...warning, a man in a black knit ski mask leaped out and started shooting. Javier jumped up and ran. Zigzagging across the building's broad concrete plaza, he tried to escape the relentless barrage of bullets. At least one hit its mark. Javier stumbled and fell into a small fishpond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangland Politics | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Daimaru, at 72, had time to build a traditional garden with a small fishpond, and he could watch television documentaries and foreign movies late into the night. I asked about the strange bird cries of last evening. "I know them," he said. "They come only with darkness. It's the bird nobody knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Among the Roadside Gods:Touring the earth on which paths cross | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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